On this Picostat.com statistics page, you will find information about the StrikeNb data set which pertains to Number of Strikes in Us Manufacturing . The StrikeNb data set is found in the Ecdat R package. You can load the StrikeNb data set in R by issuing the following command at the console data("StrikeNb"). This will load the data into a variable called StrikeNb. If R says the StrikeNb data set is not found, you can try installing the package by issuing this command install.packages("Ecdat") and then attempt to reload the data. If you need to download R, you can go to the R project website. You can download a CSV (comma separated values) version of the StrikeNb R data set. The size of this file is about 1,482 bytes.

Number of Strikes in Us Manufacturing

Description

monthly observations from 1968(1) to 1976 (12)

number of observations : 108

observation : country

country : United States

Usage

data(StrikeNb)

Format

A time serie containing :

strikes

number of strikes (number of contract strikes in U.S. manufacturing beginning each month)

output

level of economic activity (measured as cyclical departure of aggregate production from its trend level)

time

a time trend from 1 to 108

Source

Kennan, J. (1985) “The Duration of Contract strikes in U.S. Manufacturing”, Journal of Econometrics, 28, 5-28.

Cameron, A.C. and Trivedi P.K. (1990) “Regression Based Tests for Overdispersion in the Poisson Model”, Journal of Econometrics, december, 347-364.

References

Cameron, A.C. and Trivedi P.K. (1998) Regression analysis of count data, Cambridge University Press, http://cameron.econ.ucdavis.edu/racd/racddata.html, chapter 7.

See Also

Index.Source, Index.Economics, Index.Econometrics, Index.Observations,

Index.Time.Series

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Dataset imported from https://www.r-project.org.